Biden voters, how do you feel he is doing?

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The border issue aside, the administration was off to a good start, they hit the ground running in ways that no other administration of my lifetime did. However, that seemed to change this summer, both with the tying of the reconciliation bill to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, as well as the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Now don't get me wrong, I support what's in the reconciliation bill and hope it passes, but I feel it was a mistake to tie it to the bipartisan infrastructure bill. They should've passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill first, and then moved to pass the reconciliation bill rather than making one dependent on the passage of the other. As for the Afghanistan withdrawal, it was the right decision and I give Biden credit for sticking to his guns (something his former boss was too chicken to do with Iraq), but I also do feel it was a messy pull out and one that definitely could've been handled better. Both of these events of the summer took the wind out of the sails of the Biden administration and left them scrambling.

I'll also acknowledge however that both moderate democrats (Sinema, Manchin) and progressive alike (the Squad, unfortunately Sanders with regards to the infrastructure bill) are just as much of a hindrance to Biden as Afghanistan and the tying of the two plans. Biden, as well as Schumer and Pelosi need to take a page from the LBJ play book and get these pests in line.

In short, they had a very strong start, but got derailed over the course of the last two months. There's still time to get back on track, but it needs to happen sooner rather than later. I'd say despite some flaws, Biden thus far has been the best President of my lifetime, though that isn't saying much. Clinton lost his spine after 1994, W. was a disaster (don't let media and center left white washing fool you), Obama was a huge missed opportunity, and I hope I don't have to explain the last embarrassment of a person that occupied the Presidency.